[ale] politics, KDE

[Jonathan Rickman]

On Wednesday 10 September 2003 00:30, Chris Ricker wrote:

> s_aboutData->addCredit("United States Army", I18N_NOOP("Preserving the
> freedom that made this software possible"));

Well, first of all, this is wrong. Everyone knows that the USMC preserves 
freedom while the Army sits around eating cake with the civilians. :)

> KDE asked him to remove it per KDE no-political-statements policies, he
> refused, KDE removed it, and he pulled his apps from KDE. They're still
> available on his home page <http://www.hakubi.us/>.... Browsing the KDE
> CVS web verifies that at least kaboodle is currently removed from KDE,
> though.

No political statements they disagree with. The entire KDE home page was 
recently used for a political statement.

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
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